Announcement: ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers

["British Editor" <British.editor@erpanet.org>]

ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers

June 17-18, 2004
University College Cork

Co-Sponsors
University College Cork

Digital Curation Centre (UK)
MINERVA

Focus

The persistent identification of electronic resources can play a vital
role in enabling long-term access and re-use and can positively impact on
an object's authenticity. This seminar aims to provide an overview of
current activity in the field of persistent identifiers and an
understanding of the various persistent identification strategies being
used and developed. Individual experiences with persistent identifiers
will be explored through presentations from the library community, the
higher and further education community, the scientific community and the
publishing community. The seminar will also provide an update from the
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) working group on persistent
identifiers.

Who will benefit from attending?

The seminar will bring together a wide range of participants from a 
variety of sectors from all over Europe. This training seminar will 
benefit anyone who creates or manages access to digital resources - 
including librarians, archivists, scientists, publishers and staff from 
higher and further education and government institutions.

Dates
Thursday, June 17 and Friday, June 18, 2004

Venue
The seminar will be held at the Boole Lecture Theatre, University College
Cork. More information about the UCC is available on their website
http://www.ucc.ie. ERPANET is extremely grateful to the University College
Cork for providing the venue for this training event and for hosting an
evening reception for seminar participants on Thursday, June 17th.

Programme

The seminar features presentations by:

-Norman Paskin, IDF
-Larry Lannom, Handle System
-Kathrin Schroeder, Die Deutsche Bibliothek
-Robin Wilson, The Stationary Office (TSO)
-Stu Weibel, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
-Mary Heath, California Digital Library
-Eva Muller, Uppsala University

Further details of these and other presentations will be available on our
website soon.

Further information

A briefing paper, travel and accommodation information, and an extensive
list of background documentation are available from the ERPANET site
(http://www.erpanet.org). Abstracts, papers and the seminar report will be
accessible via the ERPANET site following the event.

Please note: University College Cork has offered a discount rate for
accommodation on campus.

To register
The registration fee is 100 Euros. Please go to http://www.erpanet.org 
and follow the links to register.

For additional information, please contact british.editor@erpanet.org
www.erpanet.org

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